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Whiteout - The CIA, Drugs, and the Press (Paperback, New edition)
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Whiteout - The CIA, Drugs, and the Press (Paperback, New edition)
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On March 16, 1998, the CIA's Inspector General, Fred Hitz, finally
let?the cat out of the bag in an aside at a Congressional Hearing.
Hitz told?the US Reps that the CIA had maintained relationships
with companies and?individuals the Agency knew to be involved in
the drug business. Even more?astonishingly, Hitz revealed that back
in 1982 the CIA had requested and?received from Reagan's Justice
Department clearance not to report any knowledge?it might have of
drug-dealing by CIA assets. With these two admisstions, Hitz
definitively sank decades of CIA denials,?many of them under oath
to Congress. Hitz's admissions also made fools of?some of the most
prominent names in US journalism, and vindicated investigators?and
critics of the Agency, ranging from Al McCoy to Senator John Kerry.
The involvement of the CIA with drug traffickers is a story that
has?slouched into the limelight every decade or so since the
creation of the?Agency. Most recently, in 1996, the San Jose
Mercury News published a sensational?series on the topic, "Dark
Alliance", and then helped destroy?its own reporter, Gary Webb. In
Whiteout, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair?finally put the
whole story together from the earliest days, when the
CIA's?institutional ancestors, the OSS and the Office of Naval
Intelligence, cut?a deal with America's premier gangster and drug
trafficker, Lucky Luciano. They show that many of even the most
seemingly outlandish charges leveled?against the Agency have basis
in truth. After the San Jose Mercury News?series, for example,
outraged black communities charged that the CIA had?undertaken a
program, stretching across many years, of experiments on
minorities.?Cockburn and St. Clair show how the CIA imported Nazi
scientists straight?from their labs at Dachau and Buchenwald and
set them to work developing?chemical and biological weapons, tested
on black Americans, some of them?in mental hospitals. Cockburn and
St. Clair show how the CIA's complicity with drug-dealing?criminal
gangs was part and parcel of its attacks on labor organizers,
whether?on the docks of New York, or of Marseilles and Shanghai.
They trace how?the Cold War and counterinsurgency led to an
alliance between the Agency?and the vilest of war criminals such as
Klaus Barbie, or fanatic heroin?traders like the mujahedin in
Afghanistan. Whiteout is a thrilling history that stretches from
Sicily in 1944 to?the killing fields of South-East Asia, to CIA
safe houses in Greenwich Village?and San Francisco where CIA men
watched Agency-paid prostitutes feed LSD?to unsuspecting clients.
We meet Oliver North as he plotted with Manuel?Noriega and Central
American gangsters. We travel to little-known airports?in Costa
Rica and Arkansas. We hear from drug pilots and accountants
from?the Medillin Cocaine Cartel. We learn of DEA agents whose
careers were ruined?because they tried to tell the truth. The CIA,
drugs. and the press. Cockburn and St. Clair dissect the
shameful?way many American journalists have not only turned a blind
eye on the Agency's?misdeeds, but helped plunge the knife into
those who told the real story. Here at last is the full saga.
Fact-packed and fast-paced, Whiteout is? a richly detailed
excavation of the CIA's dirtiest secrets. For all who ?want to know
the truth about the Agency this is the book to start with.
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